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Agent Installation

To use the WhaTap monitoring service, after Sign in, create a project and install the agent to the target server. For more information about registration as a member, see the following.

Creating a project​

Create a project before installing the agent.

  1. Log in to the WhaTap Monitoring Service.

  2. In the left side menu, click All Projects > + Project.

  3. On the Select product screen, select the product you want to install.

  4. Enter or select the following items:

    • Project name: Enter the project name.

    • Data server region: Select the data server region. A region is a group of data centers that provide cloud services. Your data will be stored in the selected region.

    • Time zone: Set the time zone to be used for alerts and report generation.

    • Notification language setting: Set the language for alert notifications. (Supports Korean and English)

    • Project groups: Group multiple projects for easier management. Select a group if applicable.

    • Project description: Add additional details or a description for your project.

  5. After completing all settings, click the Creating a project button.

Note

If you add a project while an organization is selected, you must set the Groups of organization field.

For more information about groups, see the related document.

Checking the access key​

The access key is the unique ID to enable the WhaTap service.

In the installation guide section, select Getting the access key. After the access key has been issued automatically, proceed to the next step.

Note

After a project has been created, the Agent installation page appears automatically. If the Agent installation does not appear, select Management > Agent installation on the left of the screen.

Download agent​

After getting the access key, select your OS running. In the Download agent section, copy the command for the OS to install the agent.

The PHP agent installation method is Linux package installation. You can install it in the following order.

  1. Register the WhaTap repository.

  2. Install the whatap-php Linux package (yum, apt-get).

  3. Run the configuration script. Through the configuration script, the tracer is registered as PHP extension module, and the agent runs by the whatap-php service.

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  4. Restart Apache or PHP-FPM.

Note

For more information about the agent file structure, see the PHP agent file structure.

The agent file consists of the tracers that extracts information for application monitoring and delivers it to the WhaTap collection server, the agents to transmit the collected information to the server, and the installation script files to dynamically apply the tracers and agents to the server. For more information about the agent files, see the following.

The method how to set depending on the application server environment is provided as follows. Before installing and applying the agent, check Support environment first.